Your best bet is to remove the heatsinks and leave the CPUs in their sockets. If your PC has an actual power switch on the power supply turn it off but leave the cord plugged in (to get a good ground). If there's no power switch (or a light stays on on your mobo, make sure you ground yourself first.
Wipe the thermal compund off the CPU (with it still in the mobo) with a paper towel, getting it good and clean. When both CPU's are clean, release the little lever to the side of the socket to open the ZIF socket. Pull the CPU straight up (it should lift out with NO resistance (ZIF means zer insertion force). Look at the pins on the underside of the CPU, one corner will have one missing. Find the corresponding missing hole in the ZIF slot on the other mobo and line up the pins. Place the CPU in the pins (Remember the zero insertion force - it should drop in place easily). Then close the lever again. Smear a bit of thermal compound on the cpu and spread it around paper thin. You don't need much - too much is a bad thing for thermal transfer. Clean off the heatsink and place it back over the cpu and screw/click/lock it in place (there are different mechanisms for different heatsinks, so I can't describe how to do this - just repeat the method you used to remove it in reverse - they sometimes require a lot of force, just make sure its downwards force). Voila, you are done! Hope this helps and Good luck! Robin On 9/16/05, Rob Bongiovi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry for the OT post, but I am hoping someone can > point me in the right direction. I accidentally bought > a 333Mhz XP 3000+ rather than a 400Mhz one. The 400Mhz > XP2900+ I have in another front end runs HDTV just > fine, but the 333Mhz XP 3000+ needs XvMC to play HDTV, > which can be flaky. I happen to have an extra 400Mhz > XP2900+ in another computer that I can swap, but I > have never done this before. > > Basically, what I want to know, or want a pointer to > another forum, is notes on removing a processor from > one computer without damaging, cleaning the thermal > paste off it and the heat sinks, and putting it in > another. I am especially worried about cleaning the > thermal grease off the processors and heat sinks. > > Sorry - but until I decided to install a MythTV system > in my new house, I never built my own computers. Any > help would be appreciated. > > Rob > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
